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Surgery in the nineteenth century

Salma Barma investigates how James Simpson and Joseph Lister made surgery safer during the nineteenth century

Source A A painting by Ernest Board of Robert Liston performing the first surgical operation in England with ether as an anaesthetic, 21 December 1846
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AQA Britain health and the people c.1000 to the present day

Edexcel Medicine in Britain, c.1250–present

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